Improvement in corset skirt-supporters



J. W. BROOKS. 00mm SKIRT SUPPORTER.

Patented MayBl fiat-eat @tilflite.

JOHN W. BROOKS, or BOSTON,MASSAOHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 103,556, dated May 31, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN consn'r SKIRT-SUPPORTERS.

. The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, JOHN W. Bnoous, of Boston, in the county of Suflolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corset Skirt-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a corset skirt-supporter, consisting of two stitfeners, arranged in pockets, and adj ustedand operated as described below.

In the accompanying drawings forming a. partof this specification- Figure 1 represents arear view of an ordinary corset, with my skirtsupporter attached. i

Figure 2 represents a horizontal section through the skirt-supporter, showing the position and arrangement of the stifl'eners, in the pockets.

Figure 3 is a view of the stitfeners in their natural position when taken out of the pockets. I

a. is an ordinary corset, as usually constructed.

' b is the skirt-supporter, fastened to the corset a.

This supporter can be easily detached, if desired, and the corset can be worn equally well without it.

y d are the pockets, in which the stiffeners c e rest.

The pockets g (I extend about two thirds the distance around the corset, but can be made shorter or longer, as seems most acceptable.

- The stitfeners c 0, although resting in the pockets, are not attached or fastened thereto, but are perfectly free in the pockets, subject only to the straps n h, which are attached to the stit'feners.

Each of the straps n and 71 is attached to an end of a stiffener, the strap n being attached. to the left end of't-he stiffener e, and the strap h being attached to the right end of the stiffener 0, (see figs. 2 and 3) One end of each stilfeuer remains free.

So it will be readily seen that when I grasp the straps a and h, and pull at them, the immediate effect is to push the right end of thestifl'ener c and the left end of the stifiener 0 close up against the ends ofthe pockets 1 and d, and then, as I continue to draw,

the supporter rises and extends outward from the The great difficnlty with most supporters is, that they do not readily conform themselves to both large and small persons. I think there is no supporter manufactured which will thus adapt itself. One great object of this invention is to obviate this difliculty'. My twost-ifieners being perfectly free in the pockets, run very easily in or out of the pockets, as the person wearing them may be small or large, allowing the gap'in the back of the corset to be wide or narrow, without any hitching or catching, when they can be secured in place by means of the strings a h.

This supporter can be attached to any corset now manufactured.

1 am aware that I have obtained a patent dated January 25, 1870, on an improvement in corset skirt-supporters. This invention diifers essentially from that, inasmuch as in that device I used but one stiffener, while in this I use two, and as a consequence, the method of adjusting and fastening the stifl'eners in this invention must be entirely different from the invention patented January 25, 1870. I therefore do not claim in this application any part of the invention alluded to.

\Vhat I claim. as my invention, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is-- A corset skirt-supporter, consisting of the stiffeners c 0, arranged in pockets d g, and fastened therein at opposite ends, and having their free ends provided with adjusting straps, substantially as shown.

J. W. BROOKS. \Vitnesses:

W. D. BROOKS, H. W. WILLIAMS. 

